Indigenous Access: “We Haven’t Reached Our Full Potential”
In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted the inaugural Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event brought together community network operators, Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy makers, and Indigenous leadership to work together to bridge the connectivity gap in indigenous communities in North America. One of the participants shared his story.
“We haven’t reached our full potential,” says Gilbert Martinez, of the Pueblo of Laguna’s Kawaika Hanu Internet. “Community Internet access is good, but it can get better.”
The Laguna Utility Authority was awarded a $3.3M grant through USDA Community Connect, which will enable a number of projects provided the community is an Internet Service Provider, among other stipulations. The benefits of Internet access – and the grant’s impact – are already evident, which Martinez shared in a presentation at the Indigenous Connectivity Summit: one community member was able to apply for an internship with the Laguna Tribal Courts and is now working to complete her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice; one family uses the Internet for school work, to pay bills, and to do online research; an unemployed computer center volunteer obtained a job at a media company; and silversmiths are able to Continue reading
PQ 155: Forecasting Network Evolution At VMworld’s Future:Net 2018
This Priority Queue was recorded live at the Future:Net conference at VMworld 2018. Guests Bruce Davie and Guido Appenzeller discuss service meshes, differences between hybrid and multicloud, intrinsic security, intent-based networking and more.
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Virtualization Is Core to Sprint Curiosity IoT Platform
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5 Things You Should Know About Dark Fiber
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Worth Reading: Intent-Based Networking Taxonomy
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Saša Ratković (Apstra) published a must-read Intent-Based Networking Taxonomy which (not surprisingly) isn’t too far from what I had to say about the topic in a blog post and related webinar.
It’s also interesting to note that the first three levels of intent-based networking he described match closely what we’re discussing in Building Network Automation Solutions online course and what David Barroso described in Network Automation Use Cases webinar:
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Step-by-step instructions for DHCP configuration on Windows
Here at Cumulus, we try to offer a lot of different tutorials for engineers to learn basic open networking commands and configurations, all the way up to advanced configurations (our how-to videos are a great example). But sometimes I find that there are some critical configurations where your desktop OS is a major player in how you configure. So for that reason, this blog post we will configure ONIE and Cumulus ZTP (Zero-Touch Provisioning) IPv4 DHCP Options on a Windows 2016 Server (this should also work with Windows 2012). I’ve broken this up into simple step-by-step instructions so it’s easy to follow.
The first thing we will do is create the options needed for Cumulus Linux.
1. To begin, right click on IPv4 and select “Set Predefined Options…”
2. Next, click the “Add” button:
Fill in the Option Type dialog box with the following:
Name: “default-url”
Data type: String
Code: “114”
Description: “Cumulus Binary Install”
Next, click “OK”
3. Clicking on the “OK” button will present you with the following dialog box that will require a String Value:
The “String Value” is the URL towards a binary image of Cumulus Linux.
4. Repeat “Step #2” in order to Continue reading
VMware Plans to Bring More AWS, Other Cloud-Native Services on Prem
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Sprint Sweet on 5G Spectrum Plans
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Interested in Ubuntu? Check Out Andrew Mallet’s New Course
Tune into our newest addition to our course library: Ubuntu Server (18.04): Installing and Managing openLDAP Directories, with Andrew Mallet to learn the basics of Ubuntu server.
About the Course:
OpenLDAP is a directory service that predates many proprietary systems and provides a universal authentication mechanism for client system to authenticate to and white pages system to search. In this course we will take you through the basics of openLDAP Leading to an install. From there you will learn how to develop your system further by adding and searching entries. Next we will move on to authentication to openLDAP from other Linux clients and services such as Apache HTTPD. Finally we will look at scaling out our system by including replication to add failover and fault-tolerance to the Directly.